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Cover -- Conceptualizing the West in International Relations -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The West and Cultural World Order -- 1 The West, Civilizations and International Relations Theory -- 2 Towards a Framework for Conceptualizing the West in International Relations -- 3 Faust in the Twilight: Conceptions of the West in Oswald Spengler -- 4 The Parochial Civilization: Arnold Toynbee's Conception of the West -- 5 Universalizing the West? The Conception of the West in the Work of the 'International Society' School -- 6 History's End? Francis Fukuyama's Conception of the West -- 7 Civilizations in Conflict: Samuel Huntington's Conception of the West -- 8 The Occident and its Significant 'Other': Edward Said's West -- Conclusion: Continuities and Difference: Conceptions of the West and Cultural World Order Compared -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

THE KEY ELEMENT OF SAMUEL HUNTINGTON'S ESSAY IS THAT IN THE POST-COLD WAR WORLD CIVILIZATIONS WILL REPLACE IDEOLOGY AS THE FUNDAMENTAL SOURCE OF CONFLICT. THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES SOME OF THE KEY POINTS OF THE ESSAY, AND OF SOME OF THE RESPONSES IT HAS PROVOKED. IT USES THIS DISCUSSION AS A VEHICLE TO REFLECT ON THE ROLE OF CIVILIZATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. IT SUGGESTS THAT CIVILIZATIONAL IDENTITY IS A POWERFUL FORCE IN WORLD POLITCS. IT CAUTIONS THAT TO VIEW INTER-CIVILIZATIONS RELATIONS AS PRIMARILY RELATIONS OF CONFLICT, AND TO ACCEPT UNQUESTIONALY THE RHETORIC OF INTER-CIVILIZATIONAL CONFLICT CAN BE MISLEADING AND UNNECCESSARILY NARROWS THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF INTERCIVILIZATIONAL RELATIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.

This article examines the rationale for restricting the international artistic patrimony. The meaning of national patrimony is analysed, and rationales for state funding and interventions in the art market are analysed in light of the nonprivate benefits that this category of art produces. Distributional concerns about the international movement of art are considered. The second part of the article provides a taxonomy of restrictions used to prevent art objects leaving a nation, namely export restrictions, import regulations, and tax policies and incentives.